Comments on: In Search of a Safe Harbor

By: In Search of a Safe Harbor : Classic World

In Search of a Safe Harbor : Classic World — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:02:22 +0000

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By: mrteachersir

mrteachersir — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:47:11 +0000

I meant “needn’t go through…”

My bad.

By: mrteachersir

mrteachersir — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:46:15 +0000

While I read this, I could not help think of my sister in law. While it is highly doubtful that a covanented marriage actually existed between she and her husband, I was greatful to find that she need go through a protracted, nasty screaming battle, for her sake and for the sake of her son (who will now have a loving father-figure in his life: me). Once the divorce is final, she will begin the annulment procedings under the guidance of a holy and orthodox priest.

Despite these benefits, would the two have gotten married if, infact, divorce were not so easy to obtain? Would he have worked as hard as she did to make the marriage work? Something tells that if we as a culture viewed marriage as a Sacrament, divorce would still be scandal.

By: PrairieHawk

PrairieHawk — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:39:47 +0000

I am a 39-year-old child of divorce, having lived through two “no-fault” divorces before I turned 18. I’m fortunate to have had recourse to the Sacraments, to good doctors, and to a rich prayer life, but not everyone has these resources. Divorce harms children immeasurably. I am only now working on the emotional maturity and stability that would allow me to have a family of my own, and I’m rapidly coasting toward middle age. Abortion, contraception, and divorce should be outlawed. It’s as simple as that. The harm to our children is simply too overwhelming to contemplate anything but the most drastic of remedies. Will it ever happen? I’m not looking for it, but that’s my prescription, from one who has been there.

By: steve p

steve p — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:46:56 +0000

Judy,

You need to send this excellent piece to the op-ed editors of the major secular newspapers. Notihng to loose and much exposure to gain if one or more use it.

steve p

By: DonHudzinski

DonHudzinski — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:42:38 +0000

A note you are talking to the chior here on this one…

These comments were post by a friend of Catholic Exchange, I Quote:

Divorce, Oh, What have You Done

Can any see how the sundering of Matrimony – the Sacrament, and of two-become-one united together in and by vows, and joined-together by God – in divorce per-staged all this before any could really see the horrors which have resulted? E.g., i.e., wasn’t depreciating and belittling the terrible results of divorce on children just a bit of ‘aborting’ the children, after all, by smothering their agonized cries and shocked voices?

Think of it – the one, sole Sacrament behind love of two in this Sacrament of Matrimony ,
love of family , love of baby and baby-making/raising , having elderly grandparents to lovingly care-take rather than shelve or ‘put-to-sleep’ – indeed, at the heart of civilization -
is trivialized as regularly as rain, for centuries now in legalized (and most especially in ‘no-fault’, which would be better termed ‘both-fault’) divorce.

Simply . . . if we can ‘terminate’ and ‘abort’ Mommums and Daddums at their life-giving Sacrament, why not Baby-ums at or before he breathes in life?
If the Sacrament of Matrimony can be ended, why not contra-conceiving and/or aborting and/or infanticiding the fruits of what-would-be, in God-and-life-ordered morality, of the Sacrament of Matrimony?

He said, I could use them at any time, I always thank him for this.